Hyperbole: is exaggeration or overstatement.
Opposite of underestimate
Example:
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
He's as big as a house.
Satire: a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack.The literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it. The object of satire is usually some human frailty; people, institutions, ideas, and things are all fair game for satirists. Satire evokes attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn, or indignation toward its faulty subject in the hope of somehow improving it. See also irony, parody.
Alliteration: is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. Example:
In cliches: sweet smell of success, a dime a dozen, bigger and better, jump for joy
Wordsworth: And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.
Onomatopoeia: is a word that imitates the sound it represents.
also imitative harmony
Example:
splash, wow, gush, kerplunk
Rhythm & Rhyme: is a pattern of words that contain similar sounds.
Example:
go/show/glow/know/though
Oxymoron: is putting two contradictory words together.Examples:
hot ice, cold fire, wise fool, sad joy, eloquent silence,
satirical oxymoron:
Military intelligence
Great Britain (this was offered by a citizen from UK)
Metaphor: comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using like or as as in a simile.
Example: He is a pig. Thou art sunshine.
Malapropism: is an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
Analogy: is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. The key is to ascertain the relationship between the first so you can choose the correct second pair. Part to whole, opposites, results of are types of relationships you should find.
Example: hot is to cold as fire is to ice OR hot:cold::fire:ice
Euphemism: is the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener;[1] or in the case of doublespeak, to make it less troublesome for the speaker.[citation needed] It also may be a substitution of a description of something or someone rather than the name, to avoid revealing secret, holy, or sacred names to the uninitiated, or to obscure the identity of the subject of a conversation from potential eavesdroppers. Some euphemisms are intended to be funny.
Repetition: of a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern is a basic unifying device in all poetry
Example:
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn....
Allusion: is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event.
An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion.
Example: Stephen Vincent Benet's story "By the Waters of Babylon" contains a direct reference to Psalm 137 in the Bible.
Personification: is giving human qualities to animals or objects.
Example: a smiling moon, a jovial sun
Allegory: is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personification of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy.
Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
Example: I have found the Ekphrasis poetry very useful in treaching allegory.
Opposite of underestimate
Example:
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
He's as big as a house.
Satire: a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack.The literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it. The object of satire is usually some human frailty; people, institutions, ideas, and things are all fair game for satirists. Satire evokes attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn, or indignation toward its faulty subject in the hope of somehow improving it. See also irony, parody.
Alliteration: is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. Example:
In cliches: sweet smell of success, a dime a dozen, bigger and better, jump for joy
Wordsworth: And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.
Onomatopoeia: is a word that imitates the sound it represents.
also imitative harmony
Example:
splash, wow, gush, kerplunk
Rhythm & Rhyme: is a pattern of words that contain similar sounds.
Example:
go/show/glow/know/though
Oxymoron: is putting two contradictory words together.Examples:
hot ice, cold fire, wise fool, sad joy, eloquent silence,
satirical oxymoron:
Military intelligence
Great Britain (this was offered by a citizen from UK)
Metaphor: comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using like or as as in a simile.
Example: He is a pig. Thou art sunshine.
Malapropism: is an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
Analogy: is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. The key is to ascertain the relationship between the first so you can choose the correct second pair. Part to whole, opposites, results of are types of relationships you should find.
Example: hot is to cold as fire is to ice OR hot:cold::fire:ice
Euphemism: is the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener;[1] or in the case of doublespeak, to make it less troublesome for the speaker.[citation needed] It also may be a substitution of a description of something or someone rather than the name, to avoid revealing secret, holy, or sacred names to the uninitiated, or to obscure the identity of the subject of a conversation from potential eavesdroppers. Some euphemisms are intended to be funny.
Repetition: of a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern is a basic unifying device in all poetry
Example:
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn....
Allusion: is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event.
An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion.
Example: Stephen Vincent Benet's story "By the Waters of Babylon" contains a direct reference to Psalm 137 in the Bible.
Personification: is giving human qualities to animals or objects.
Example: a smiling moon, a jovial sun
Allegory: is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personification of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy.
Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
Example: I have found the Ekphrasis poetry very useful in treaching allegory.